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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE.

ROBERTO e. BONE, or MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF A. ESTEVA,or new YORK, N. Y.

SUBSTITUTE FOR LINSEED-OIL AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

No Drawing. Application filed March 23,

T all whom'z't may concern:

- Be it known that I, RoBnn'ro G. Bonn, a citizen of Nicaragua, residingat Managua, Nicaragua, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Substitutes for Linseed-Oil and Processes of Making Same, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertainls to make and usethe same. i

This invention relates to substances suit able for use as substitutesfor linseed oil and'to processes for making such substances.

One of the objects of this invention is the provision of a practicalprocess for the production of a substance which may be used as asubstitute for linseed oil and whereby said substitute may be producedquickly and at a minimum of expense.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a substance whichmay be used as a substitute for linseed oil.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the several steps and the relationand order of one or more of such steps with relation to each of theothers thereof which will be exemplified in the hereinafterdisclosedprocess, and the scope of the applicatien of which will be indicated incertain ofthe claims that follow, and also consists in the combinationsof elements hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application ofwhich will be indicated in other claims which follow.

The process involves the use of a lubricating oil, with kerosene oiladded, if desired, and the treatment thereof with certain substancesgiving brilliancy, drying qualities and odor to the substanceto producethe substitute referred to.

Other substitutes for linseed oil have involved the use of materials andingredients which are very costly compared to the ingredients hereinreferred to.

In carryingout the present embodiment of the invention several tanks orcontainers may be employed. One of these tanks is equipped with heatingmeans and means whereby the contents of the tank may be agitated, asteam heated worm being found suitable for the purposes desired. In thistank isplaced a quantity of kerosene, a

quantity of lubricating oil and some rosin.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20,1920.

1918. Serial No. 224,313.

The mixture formed by these ingredients is heated to the boiling pointand allowed to boil for a substantial length of time,

three-quarters of an hour to one hour beadded thereto, and this newmixture is allowed to boil for some time, fifteen minutes being usuallysuflicient, thereby thoroughly incorporating the drier into the mixture.Agitating or stirring the mixture during the addition of the drier isfound to aid the proper mixing of the ingredients, and to facilitateoxidation. Finally the liquid in this tank may be passed into anothertank, and a small quantity of red-cod oil added thereto and the mixtureallowed to rest for a period of time, say about twelve hours.

The resultant substance is found to be available for use as a substitutefor linseed oil, and to possess most of the desirable qualities thereof,the odor being quite the same, and the product being in a generallyacceptable commercial form.

In the above described process it is found satisfactory to use, in thefirst tank, approximately sixty parts, by weight of kerosene oil withforty parts of lubricating oil and to add thereto approximately tenparts of rosin. The kerosene oil need not be of the finest quality, butifthe quality is very poor and the oil has. an obje'ctiona le odor, itis well before using it in this process to treat it in the followingmanner: Place the kerosene in a tank and mix therewith a quantity ofhydrochloric acid and chlori'd.

:to MANUEL results. About one part of red-cod oil will impart to theproduct the characteristic odor of linseed oil.

'It is permissible in carrying out the process to omit the kerosene oilentirely,'using only lubricating oil in connection with a drier androsin and adding the red-cod oil if desired, all in the quantities andmanner before described. Nevertheless as lubricating oil 'ismoreexpensive than kerosene the use of kerosene is favored.

The periods of time required'for boiling, agitating and rest inconnection with the difierent substances above referred to have beenfound to be most eflicient. It is to be understood, however, that goodresults follow from even. longer or shorter periods, depending somewhatupon the bulk of material used. -Sufficient time should be given for thecomplete and permanent intermixing of the ingredients.

Thus by the above described process is produced a substance having many.of the qualities of linseed oil and which may be aptly termed artificiallinseed oil. Its characteristics are similar to linseed oil and it maybe effectively used wherever linseed oil could be used. Thus areaccomplished,

. among others, the objects hereinbeforereferred to.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is- 1. A process of producing a substitute for linseedoil comprising boiling a lubricating oil in the presence of a drier androsin.

2. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a mixture of kerosene oil and lubricating oil inthe presence ofa drier and rosin.

3. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a mixture of kerosene oil and lubricating oil in the presence ofrosin, thereafter adding drier and boiling the resultant mixture whileagitating-the same. i

4. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisin boilinga mixture of kerosene oil and lubricating oil in the presence of rosin,thereafter adding hydrate of manganese and boiling the resultant mixturewhile agitating the same.

5. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a mixture of kerosene oil and lubricating oil in the ture whileagitating the same, and thereafter adding red-cod oil andpermitting theresultant mixture to rest.

6. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a mixture of kerosene oil and lubricating oil for about one hourin the presence of rosin, thereafter adding hydrate of manganese andboiling the resultant mixture for about one-quarter hour while agitatingthe same, and thereafter drawing off the liquid product and addingred-cod oil and permitting the resultant mixture to rest forapproximately twelve hours.

7. The process of producing a substitute for linseed oil, whichincludesmixing kerosene oil with lubricating oil a drier and rosin in theproportion of about sixty parts kerosene oil to forty parts lubricatingoil and ten parts of rosin.

8. The process of producing a substitute for linseed oil, which includesmixing kerosene oil with lubricating oil, rosin and hydrate of manganesein the following proportions: sixty parts kerosene oil, forty parts ofmanganese and red-cod oil in the f0llow-...

ing proportions: sixty parts kerosene oil, forty partslubricating oil,ten parts rosin, two and one-eighth parts hydrate of manganese and onepart red-cod oil.-

' 10. The process of producing-a substitute for linseed oil, whichincludes mixing sixty parts kerosene oil with forty parts lubricatingoil and mixing with that mixture ten parts of rosin; heating thismixture to boiling, continuing the boiling for approximately fiftyminutes, agitating the mixture, adding thereto two and one-eighth partsof hydrate of manganese,-causing the mixture to boil for about fifteenminutes, stirring the ingredients during the addition of the manganese,withdrawing the supernatent liquid from this mixture, adding theretoabout one part of red-cod oil, and allowing the resultant mixture torest for approximately twelve hours.

11. An artificial oil comprising a mixture of lubricating oil, rosin andhydrate of manganese. i

12. An artificial oil comprising a mixture of kerosene oil, lubricatingoil, rosin and hydrate of manganese.

13. An artificial oil comprising a mixture of kerosene oil, lubricatingoil, hydrate of for linseed oil comprising boiling a lubricatingoil inthe presence of rosin, thereafter adding a drier and boiling theresultant mixture.

15. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a mixture 5 of kerosene and lubricating oil in the presence ofrosin, thereafter adding a drier and boiling the resultant mixture.

16. A process of producing a substitute for linseed oil comprisingboiling a lubri- 0 eating oil in the presence of rosin approximately onehour, thereafter adding a drier and boiling the resultant mixtureapproximately one quarter of an hour.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses. 15

ROBERTO C. BONE.

\Vitnesses:

J. W. ANDERSON, C. J. KULBERG.

